Academic Research
Sawyer K. Kemp (they/them) is an assistant professor of English and Literature at Queens College, CUNY. Their research areas include: early modern drama, Shakespeare studies, performance studies, transgender & queer theory, affect theory, and trans & queer life in the 16th and 17th Century.
Sawyer’s work has appeared in Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and the edited collection Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare.
Forthcoming essays include research on bodily transformation in Milton’s Comus masque; a meditation on the trans coloniality of Antonio de Erauso; and an archive collecting and parsing disparate narratives of the 17th Century street vendor Aniseed Water Robin.
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“Inclusion and Trans Literature”
Essay in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature.
Editors: Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp
Recent Publications:
Afterword: The Lieutenant Nun & Early Modern Trans Drama
Authors: Simone Chess & Sawyer Kemp
Afterword in The Lieutenant Nun: Annotated Translation of the Play, Historical Accounts and Documents about Antonio/Catalina de Erauso.
Editors: Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Edward McLean Test
Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times
Authors: Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen
available open access at Radical History Review’s digital venue, The Abusable Past.
Forthcoming Work:
Early Modern Trans Drama
Volume Editors: Simone Chess & Sawyer K. Kemp
Forthcoming.
Irreversible Access
Monograph.
“To Roll with Pleasure in a Sensual Sty: Trans Sexualities and Milton’s Comus.”
Essay in Trans Milton.
Editors: Urvashi Chakravarty, Ari Friedlander, & Colby Gordon.